Itzhak Perlman Quotes
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That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.
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I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.
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For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.
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When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
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I did an improv that was one of the most exhilarating ten minutes of my entire life. I mean, when you're doing it, you forget yourself.
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You should seek approval from yourself.
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
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But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.
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The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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What I like about gyrotonics is you feel like you really elongated yourself for the day... As we all get older, everything changes and moves, and there's natural ways to exercise. I think it's important, and I think it's something that can help keep things in place.
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When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.
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I think feminism is that you just have to stick it all out. I remember this one time when someone interviewed me, and I was young, and they said, 'Do you see yourself as a feminist?' And I was like, 'I don't know. I'm not really comfortable calling myself a feminist.'
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Be yourself. And every person is unique.
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If you feel sick and tired of how things are in your life, chances are it's because you're making yourself sick and tired - by engaging in too many energy leaking things.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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I think when I was 12, I started reading Evelyn Waugh, and I loved Evelyn Waugh so much, and I thought: 'This is how the world really is. If I could be Evelyn Waugh, then I would be happy.'
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Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
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My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong.
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Spending time with the military certainly lends itself to some remarkable experiences, and I've been privileged to have had my share.
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I hate the way chorus boxes sound.
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Never miss an opportunity to teach; when you teach others, you teach yourself.
